Wow, check the safety gear... The early 70's were full of great Zen moments. Riding a bike in the desert with no cares, no job, and no responsibilities but school. Does it get any better than this?
Yes it does. Ahh, the mid to late 70's. Sex, Drugs, and Rock N Roll. Sorry there isn't any sex or drugs in this photo, but the Rock N Roll is there. A time when The Brat Pack, Hair Metal, and New Wave ruled the air waves, finding a party was easy, and girls were way more fun.Here's the sex. I think this was taken in a bordello in Sherman Oaks... No wait, this was my girlfriend's apartment.
At one time in the early 80's, I thought I was a Football Hooligan... I was a fucking punk.
The Cast of the Godfather. One of my best friends got married to someone that was very high maintenance. Needless to say, they're broke and getting a divorce today. What did we know? We're Italians.
When Reagan ushered in The Me Decade of The 80's, thoughts turned from Frosted Flakes to frosted hair, bubblegum cocaine, beautiful blondes, and Members Only jackets. Uhoh.
Our parties were fun, but a little out of control. I went for a whole year once with only about 10 hours of sleep and ended up in the hospital with severe malaise. Which was not life threatening. I wouldn't recommend this to anyone. My doctor bought a gram off me... Not really, I'm just padding the resume.
My girlfriend and I idolized the Stray Cats. Naturally, I had to have a Brian Setzer pompadour.
By the late 80's and early 90's, I wanted see how long my beard would get. But, wild squirrels and owls were starting to nest in my face, and my girlfriend cried, "Foul!" If you know what I mean. So, it had to go.
In the 90's, I needed to escape from the decadent 80's and find some peace. So, I had a religious ephipany and grew my dreads. This lasted 12 ganja filled years.
When I wasn't meditating or painting on the walls, I was crawling around on the floor of my cave all the time, like Cro-Magnon Man, trying to light fires with flint, skinning pelts for the winter, and gnawing on the carpet.Dreads are heavy when you're already carrying about 20 extra pounds up a telephone pole.
Although, they were real handy when I needed an instant Halloween costume. This is the X-rated version of Oz. That's why Scarecrow has a porno 'stache.
By the New Millenium, a careful examination of theology, quantum mechanics, meditation, and the random nature of phenomena motivated me to reevaluate my thoughts on religion and dogma. I had replaced it with Buddhism. And a Harley. Which is not a religion, but a discipline of the mind. If I dye my hair red to match my bike and no one is there to hear it, does it make a sound?... Not a chance.Today, I dream up new TV Show ideas whenever the dentist gives me nitrous. Which is quite often these days. I think I was dreaming up a show about vampires... Stay tuned.Bedroom hair? Or morning mullet? Trying to be funny at 4:30 AM. Geminis and motorcycle enthusiasts are early risers. I wish I could think of something funny to say, but it's too fucking early.You might have seen me on Venice Beach in The 90's showing off my work. I recieved a lot of stupendous comments from the public. Thank You to everyone. I haven't painted in a while. I work as a telephone lineman during the day. But, for the last 10 years with nepotism, warped ideas, and a God given talent for smart dialogue, I've been risking my sanity on a career as a Television Creator with the most talented TV Editor in the business, my partner, Paul Anderson. Hopefully our Series will be airing within the next year. P.J., I think we have a Hit!HEY, MYSPACE EDITORS. PLEASE, DON'T REMOVE MY WORK. IT'S ONLY ART.
Go to ImageShack® to Create your own SlideshowWhen I was little, the other children were in awe if you could apply Crayola crayons to Coloring Books and stay inside the lines. I was good at it. Being self taught, that's probably why I paint a lot between the lines of my drawings. Influences include the painters Picasso, Van Gogh, Matisse, Monet, Jean Michel Basquiat, Lucien Freud, Red Grooms, Frank Frazetta, Roger Dean, and comic book legends Bernie Wrightson, Barry Windsor Smith, Moebius, and Jack Kirby. All slideshow images are oil on canvas.
ANIMA: The feminine side of a man's personality in Jungian Psychology. Colored pencil on paper.24 X 48 untitled oil on canvas.You can see my search for the model in the eraser marks in this pencil sketch. As you can see, the model's arm was at one time bent upwards and there are ghost images of movement in the hand. The left breast is all wrong here. Because I'm cerebral and models can be a pain in the ass, I draw from memory and my anatomy is abstracted. Art is a struggle. If you discover that you love to paint and draw and you think you may be an artist, you must learn to draw from life before you draw from memory or from your subconscious. Learn this first. Copy from life, photos, and The Masters. Then, if you're brave, you can ingest magic mushrooms and delve into your subconscious. If it isn't a battle, it isn't art.
Picasso scraped paint from canvas continually in a fevered effort to unleash his subconscious. See THE MYSTERY OF PICASSO. It shows Picasso at work with time lapsed photography. The most relevant film I've ever seen on the process of art.
I will never forget my babies, Lucky and The Ninja.
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